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Seasonal and Holiday Poems
January, 1795 - Mary Robinson
To the Thawing Wind - Robert Frost
Spring - William Shakespeare
A little Madness in the Spring - Emily Dickinson
The year's at the spring - Robert Browning
My Little March Girl - Paul Laurence Dunbar
When Irish Eyes Are Smiling - Chauncey Olcott and George Graff, Jr.
Dartside (for Lent and Spring) - Charles Kingsley
Easter Week - Charles Kingsley
O Spirit of the Summertime - William Allingham
Invocation to Rain in Summer - William Cox Bennett
It Is Not Always May - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Memorial Day - Theodosia Pickering Garrison
Ode, July 4, 1857 - Ralph Waldo Emerson
'Tis the Last Rose of Summer - Thomas Moore
September - Helen Hunt Jackson
Autumn Wind - Wu-ti
Merry Autumn - Paul Laurence Dunbar
To Autumn - John Keats
October's Bright Blue Weather - Helen Hunt Jackson
October is Speaking - Christopher Krajenka
The Fall of the Leaves - Henry Van Dyke
Dead Leaves - James Whitcomb Riley
Fall in the Northland - Donald E. Felch
The Hag (for Halloween) - Robert Herrick
Double, Double Toil and Trouble (for Halloween) - William Shakespeare
No! (for November) - Thomas Hood
November Blue - Alice Meynell
The Fifth of November (for Guy Fawkes Day) - English Folk Verse
The Pumpkin (for Thanksgiving) - John Greenleaf Whittier
Thanksgiving - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Thanksgiving Day - Lydia Maria Child
Now Winter Nights Enlarge - Thomas Campion
The Snowstorm - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Carol of the Field-Mice - Kenneth Grahame
The Foolish Fir-Tree (for Christmas) - Henry Van Dyke
A Visit from St. Nicholas - Clement Clarke Moore
While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night - Nahum Tate
Christmas Bells - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky (for New Year's Eve) - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
America
Adams and Liberty - Robert Treat Paine
America for Me - Henry Van Dyke
Battle Hymn of the Republic - Julia Ward Howe
I Hear America Singing - Walt Whitman
Memorial Day - Theodosia Pickering Garrison
Ode, July 4, 1857 - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Choice - Rudyard Kipling
The New Clossus - Emma Lazarus
The Star-Spangled Banner - Francis Scott Key
The Stars and Stripes Forever - John Philip Sousa
Washington - Eliza Cook
When the Warrior Returns - Francis Scott Key
Ballads and Stories
Casey at the Bat - Ernest Lawrence Thayer
Flannan Isle - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
Paul Revere's Ride - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Cremation of Sam McGee - Robert Service
The Foolish Fir-Tree - Henry Van Dyke
The Great Titanic - American Folk Song
The Haunted Oak - Paul Laurence Dunbar
The Highwayman - Alfred Noyes
The Rivals - Paul Laurence Dunbar
The Swamp Fox - William Gilmore Simms
Beauty
Beauty - Abraham Cowley
Delight in Disorder - Robert Herrick
Hot sunne, coole fire, - George Peele
Ode out of Longinus - Sappho
Pied Beauty - Gerard Manley Hopkins
She - Adam Brasel
She Walks in Beauty - Lord Byron
There is a Garden in Her Face -
Thomas Campion
Venus Transiens - Amy Lowell
Beauty (superficial)
Still to Be Neat - Ben Jonson
The Lady's Dressing Room - Jonathan Swift
Birds
The Raven - Edgar Allan Poe
The Black Vulture - George Sterling
The Parliament of Fowls - Geoffrey Chaucer
Death
A Grave Song - Amy Lowell
A Psalm of Life - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Bugle Song - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"Death Be Not Proud" - John Donne
Griffy the Cooper - Edgar Lee Masters
Hod Putt - Edgar Lee Masters
My Childhood-Home I See Again - Abraham Lincoln
O Captain! My Captain! - Walt Whitman
Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat - Thomas Gray
On the Death of a Beautiful Girl - Eliza Lee Follen
Still Lies the Midnight - Walt Whitman
The Dragon and the Undying - Siegfried Sassoon
They Lie at Rest - Christina Rossetti
To an Athlete Dying Young - A. E. Housman
Fairies
Bugle Song - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The faiery beame upon you - Ben Jonson
The Fairies - William Allingham
The Foolish Fir-Tree - Henry Van Dyke
Faith and Prayer
A Psalm of Life - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Confessional - Katharine Wisner McCluskey
Ike Walton's Prayer - James Whitcomb Riley
Lord of the Far Horizons - William Bliss Carman
Pied Beauty - Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Bee in Church - Alfred Noyes
The Choice - Rudyard Kipling
Universal Prayer - Alexander Pope
Up-Hill - Christina Rossetti
Family
A Boy's Mother - James Whitcomb Riley
Four Generations - Amanda H.Bazner
Grandpa and His "Dear" - Mary Dow Brine
The Joy of Childhood - George Darley
Parenthood - John Chipman Farrar
Somebody's Mother - Mary Dow Brine
Thanksgiving Day - Lydia Maria Child
The Hand that Rocks the Cradle - William Ross Wallace
Famous People (by or about)
My Childhood-Home I See Again - Abraham Lincoln
O Captain! My Captain! (about Abraham Lincoln)- Walt Whitman
On Monsieur's Departure - Queen Elizabeth I
Paul Revere's Ride - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Swamp Fox - William Gilmore Simms
Washington - Eliza Cook
You Are Young - Abraham Lincoln
Friendship
Friendship - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
Friendship after Love - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Love and Friendship - Emily Brontë
That Out of Sight Is Out of Mind - Arthur Hugh Clough
To a Friend - Amy Lowell
Gentians
September - Helen Hunt Jackson
October's Bright Blue Weather - Helen Hunt Jackson
To the Fringed Gentian - William Cullen Bryant
To One Loved
A Line-Storm Song - Robert Frost
A Match - Algernon Charles Swinburne
Ask Me No More - Thomas Carew
At Nightfall - Charles Hanson Towne
Bedouin Song - Bayard Taylor
Dover Beach - Matthew Arnold
Echo - Christina Rossetti
How do I love thee? - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sexagenarius Loquitur Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sudden Light - Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Baite - John Donne
The Day Returns, My Bosom Burns - Robert Burns
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love - Christopher Marlowe
The Strange Music - G. K. Chesterton
Three Words - Geeia Lynn Brodsky Habing
To his Coy Mistress - Andrew Marvell
Two in the Campagna - Robert Browning
When You Are Old - William Butler Yeats
About One Loved
Jenny Kissed Me - Leigh Hunt
Lesbia Rails - Catullus
My Little March Girl - Paul Laurence Dunbar
To a Lady on Her Passion for Old China - John Gay
To One That Asked Me Why I Loved J.G. - Ephelia
"wreath of misty breathy words of..." - James Pete Taylor
Being in Love
Joy - Sara Teasdale
Song in Praise of Miss Isabella Johnston - Thomas Campbell
About Love Itself
A Woman's Answer to a Man's Question - Mary T. Lathrap
Love and Friendship - Emily Brontë
Love is a sickness - Samuel Daniel
Mediocrity in Love Rejected - Thomas Carew
No Platonic Love - William Cartwright
Spring - William Shakespeare
The Wounded Cupid - Anacreontea
'Tis the Last Rose of Summer - Thomas Moore
When I Was One-and-Twenty - A. E. Housman
Who Ever Loved, that Loved Not at First Sight? - Christopher Marlowe
Woman's Voice - Sir Edwin Arnold
You Are Young - Abraham Lincoln
Writing Poetry about Love
Love and Poetry - Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle
Loving in Truth - Sir Philip Sidney
Love Lost or In Doubt
At the Picture-Show - Karle Wilson Baker
Ebb Tide - Sara Teasdale
Friendship after Love - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I envy not in any moods - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Love Arm'd - Aphra Behn
O love me truly! - John Keats
On Monsieur's Departure - Queen Elizabeth I
Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part - Michael Drayton
Tact - Edwin Arlington Robinson
That Out of Sight Is Out of Mind - Arthur Hugh Clough
The Garden of Love - William Blake
The Look - Sara Teasdale
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd - Sir Walter Ralegh
The Rivals - Paul Laurence Dunbar
The Thracian Filly - Anacreon
To Lucasta, Going to the Wars - Richard Lovelace
To You, Remembering the Past - Christopher Morley
Two in the Campagna - Robert Browning
When We Two Parted - George Gordon, Lord Byron
Marriage
A Ring Presented to Julia - Robert Herrick
A Woman's Answer to a Man's Question - Mary T. Lathrap
Advice to an old man of sixty three about to marry - Thomas Flatman
The Batchelors Song. - Thomas Flatman
The Kick Under the Table - Edgar A. Guest
Mythology and Magic
Double, Double Toil and Trouble - William Shakespeare
The Anacreontic Song - Ralph Tomlinson
The Wounded Cupid -
Anacreontea
Nostalgia
The Vanished Country - Grantland Rice
My Childhood-Home I See Again - Abraham Lincoln
Pessimism
January, 1795 - Mary Robinson
It Is Not Always May - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Law - James Beattie
Spring and Fall - Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Conqueror Worm - Edgar Allan Poe
The Garden of Love - William Blake
The Latest Decalogue - Arthur Hugh Clough
The Second Coming - William Butler Yeats
The world is too much with us - William Wordsworth
We Wear the Mask - Paul Laurence Dunbar
Young and Old - Charles Kingsley
Places
Chicago - Carl Sandburg
Composed Upon Westminster Bridge - William Wordsworth
Owed to New York - Byron Rufus Newton
The Lady's Dressing Room - Jonathan Swift
The Office - Ross Blair
The Unnamed Lake - Frederick George Scott
Poetry and Criticism
'T is hard to say - Alexander Pope
The Genius of the Vague - Don Marquis
The Shepherd to the Poet - Agnes Kendrick Gray
To a Blank Sheet of Paper - Oliver Wendell Holmes
To the Thawing Wind - Robert Frost
Revelry
Drinking - Abraham Cowley
Give me women, wine and snuff - John Keats
The Anacreontic Song - Ralph Tomlinson
Sports
A Ballad of Baseball Burdens - Franklin P. Adams
Casey at the Bat - Ernest Lawrence Thayer
Take Me Out to the Ball Game - Jack Norworth
To an Athlete Dying Young - A. E. Housman
War and Remembrance
Absolution - Siegfried Sassoon
Aftermath - Siegfried Sassoon
Battle Hymn of the Republic - Julia Ward Howe
Concord Hymn - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dulce et Decorum Est - Wilfred Owen
High Flight - John Gillespie Magee Jr.
If We Must Die - Claude McKay
In Flanders Fields - John McCrae
Memorial Day - Theodosia Pickering Garrison
O Captain! My Captain! - Walt Whitman
Righteous Wrath - Henry Van Dyke
Still Lies the Midnight - Walt Whitman
The Choice - Rudyard Kipling
The Dragon and the Undying - Siegfried Sassoon
the war is on the kitchen table - Myrna Garanis
To Lucasta, Going to the Wars - Richard Lovelace
When the Warrior Returns - Francis Scott Key
Weather
A Line-Storm Song - Robert Frost
Invocation to Rain in Summer - William Cox Bennett
The Rising of the Storm - Paul Laurence Dunbar
The Snow-Storm - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Weather in Verse - Marc Cook
To the Thawing Wind - Robert Frost
Torrents Pour - James Thomson
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